Improvement in photographic visiting-cards



T. T. SMlTH Photographic Visiting-Cards. V

No.l47,289, PatentedFeb.10.1874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TnoMAs T. SMITH, or BROOKVILLE, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PHOTOGRAPHIC VISITING-CARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 147,289, dated February 10, 1374; application filed December 12, 1873.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS T. SMITH, of Brookville, in the county of Franklin and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cards; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

The nature of my invention relates to an improvement in Visiting-cards and it consists in providing the card with one or more openings through its face, and placing back of these openings a suitable pocket, open at its top, into which a likeness of the sender of the card may be inserted, as will be more fully described hereafter.

The accompanying drawings represent my invention.

(t represents an ordinary visiting, wedding, or business card, through which is cut any suitable-sized opening, 0. Back of this opening is pasted a piece of paper or other material, which forms a pocket, open at its top in which is placed a small ambrotypc, ferrotype, photograph, or any other kind of a picture of the sender or owner of the card. Where the card is a wedding or visiting card for two persons, there will be two of these openings, so that the likeness of both parties will. be shown at, the same time.

Cards mounted in this manner present a very unique and pretty appearance, and are rendered much more attractive than a plain piece of card with the name alone .upon it.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- As a new article of manufacture, a visitingcard having one or more openings through its face, and provided with a pocket back of said opening, constructed as described, to allow the ready insertion and removal of a photographic or other picture of the sender, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 9th day of December, 1873.

Witnesses: THOMAS T. SMITH.

PATRICK RYAN, TIIoIIAs BARTON. 

